Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 04:47:03 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> Cc: Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com>, zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk Message-ID: <382485B7.A8BDA80D@newsguy.com> References: <199911061143.MAA35365@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911060829110.14199-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com> <19991106194256.A45418@saturn.kn-bremen.de>
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Juergen Lock wrote: > > And if we add a loader command that sets currdev to the first non-floppy > ufs root found (or could this be done in forth too? :) we could even > distribute a general emergency-boot-floppy... The forth part of loader has a serious problem in that it cannot get data back from any of the non-forth commands. So, for instance, if we "set" a variable, there is no way for a program to retrieve the value the variable has been set to. This and a few other things are in my queue for a long time now, but since nobody has been complaining about it, I let it be... :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org What y'all wanna do? Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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